AZ Boy Chavez pleads guilty in 2009 double murder
Joe D. Chavez, Jr., 51 of Alamogordo, pleaded guilty to two counts of second degree murder at a May 18 plea hearing for his part as an accessory to a 2009 double-murder on Montlake Terrace.
On July 5, 2009, the then-Alamogordo Department of Public Safety was dispatched to 600 block of Montlake Terrace in reference to two people shot.
Max Griego, Jr., 27, who was killed during an attempted kidnapping and Mary Hudson Gutierrez, 34, who was killed during an attempted burglary had been shot in the head. A third person, Hudson Gutierrez, was still alive when she was found.